Dark Intervals released a Kontakt 5-string ukulele library featuring warm, airy tones, six articulations, multiple velocity layers and round robins, plus intuitive effects for cinematic and ambient scoring. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-dark-in...

NEW! Review: Carbon Electra 2 by Scaler Music "...the second coming of Carbon Electra is a versatile and capable hybrid synth."

Codwaves released WaveBalance, an auto gain staging plugin that stabilizes track levels with transparent analysis, real-time Ride Mode, Analyze & Hold, multiple detection modes, grouping, and headroom protection. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-codwave...

FREE Plugin Review: Kilohearts Compactor Part of our series highlighting some of the most intriguing free plugins from 2025.

Jonas Eriksson’s Tape Fiasco 2 turns a single audio loop into a performance instrument with four chainable time engines, 21 effects, deep modulation, sequencers, and expressive macro controls. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-jonas-e...

Review: FutureVerb by Valhalla DSP "...Whether you’re a mixer, producer or sound designer, it will bring you endless joy."

fedDSP has launched FIERY, a Mac and Windows compressor/saturator plugin with classic and vintage modes, designed to add punch, movement, and character across a wide range of sounds. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-feddsp-...

Audiority released Spatial D320, a Win/Mac hybrid BBD spatial enhancer plugin inspired by the Roland SDD-320, adding flexible chorus, width, valve coloration, ambience, and modern workflow tools. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-audiori...

Helmut Keller Audio released TWD DLX III, a free guitar amp plugin for Reaper, adding power sag, master volume, improved sound, and a redesigned GUI for vintage and modern tones. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-helmut-...

Helmut Keller Audio’s free Pickup Transformer plugin lets you reshape electric guitar pickup resonance and Q to emulate target pickup characteristics in Reaper and other hosts. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-helmut-...

DSPTone’s SubMass is a low-end resonant filter plugin inspired by VOG, designed to add tight, focused bass weight and punch while reducing mud for mixes, drums, bass, synths, and vocals. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-dsptone...

OTODESK released Ambience, a free open-source Windows VST3 reverb featuring a 16-channel FDN engine, advanced RT60 shaping, ADAA saturation, iconic-space presets, and real-time decay visualization. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-otodesk...

Eli & Flo released HiPan, a free Windows/macOS plugin that independently pans low and high frequencies with adjustable crossover, stereo spread, low mono, and solo band monitoring. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-eli-&-f...

Forward Audio’s faSmartAlign automatically groups matching mics, aligns phase and timing, applies Phase EQ, and sets adaptive gating across multi-mic sessions on Mac and Windows. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-forward...

Review: Cycles by Slate+Ash "...a marvel for facilitating exploration, pulling sounds in new directions, and offering multiple transformative possibilities..."

Wavelet Audio’s Louisa Arc is a soft, cinematic Kontakt Player vocal instrument with expressive syllables, phrases, sound design tools, and mix-ready playback for creating natural, emotional vocal lines. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-wavelet...

NEW! Best Limiter Plugins in 2026: Transparent Loudness, Punch, and Master Bus Control.

Hell Yes Loop Lab released HYLL Pressure, a free soft clipper and peak-shaping plugin for macOS and Windows, offering saturation, loudness control, and creative processing for drums, synths, bass, and mixes. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-hell-ye...

In Session Audio’s Dyad: Hand Pan Drums for Kontakt is a virtual instrument featuring a dual-hand pattern engine, customizable rhythms, and atmospheric layers like drones, nature sounds, and extra instruments. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-in-sess...

Osterhouse Sounds’ Note Walker is a creative MIDI plugin that helps keyboard players escape muscle memory, generating unexpected runs, arpeggios, and melodies through anchor notes and pitch-cursor movement. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-osterho...

Autodafe’s ByteBeat Boutique is a compact bytebeat-inspired synth plugin that turns mathematical formulas into playable, modulatable sounds for chiptune, glitch, drone, and experimental music creation. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-autodaf...

Epica Audio’s Resonant Reverb, developed with Joe Chiccarelli, is a zero-latency multi-effects plugin combining filters, distortion, plate reverb, stereo widening, compression, and 58 presets for creative sound shaping. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-epica-a...

FLASHBACK! Review: Big Sky reverb from Strymon "If you are used to the pedal, you will definitely not be disappointed with the plugin version."

NEW! FREE Plugin Review: BattleFX by Unfiltered Audio "Use it on whatever input you like, glitch it hard or don’t, randomize it all to hell, and juggle wet and dry signals for fun."

Unusable Audio’s Synaptic Resonance is a neural vocoder-style plugin that uses a 2D simulation and 40 resonant bands to create animated, experimental filter and sidechain-driven spectral effects. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-unusabl...

Handcrafted Audio’s Handcrafted Mallets for Kontakt Player/Full combines deeply sampled mallet instruments with expressive controls and a recording-based synth, offering a versatile toolkit for composers and producers. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-handcra...

ZAK Sound’s Aegean Drums is a free Raizes Player library featuring Mediterranean percussion for cinematic, trailer, game, and electronic music, with organic performances, hybrid sounds, presets, and MIDI grooves. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-zak-sou...

FREE Plugin Review: u-he Zebralette 3 Part of our series highlighting some of the most intriguing free plugins from 2025.

Sound Particles released Beat Panner, a creative panning sequencer plugin that syncs movement to a track’s beat, offering step-based patterns, presets, and broad stereo and immersive multichannel support. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-sound-p...

Westwood Instruments’ ROTOR Solo Violin for Kontakt Player features 160 tempo-synced rhythmic violin loops, plus shorts and flourishes, delivering expressive, motion-focused solo strings for modern productions. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-westwoo...

Universal Audio unveiled UAD Topline Vocal Tune, a native Mac/PC vocal pitch-correction plug-in with ultra-low-latency monitoring, genre-flexible tuning, creative pitch/formant controls, MIDI repitching, key detection, and a free demo. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-univers...

Tempest Instruments’ MINIM Strings for Kontakt is an expressive orchestral strings library focused on playable repetitive legato, intuitive phrasing, dynamic control, and fast sketching for realistic chamber-to-cinematic writing. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-tempest...

Snorkel Audio’s Wave Collider is a creative spectral blend plugin featuring 22 blend modes, a 16-step modulator, randomization tools, full automation, and a free demo for experimental sound design. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-snorkel...

Soundiron’s Saecula Organ Collection for Kontakt Player is a new organ anthology featuring seven instrument libraries, 150 presets, and flexible layering and modulation for cinematic, liturgical, and experimental music. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-soundir...

Bjango’s Chaos Line is a random performance sequencer plugin for macOS and Windows, generating morphing, tweakable sequences for basslines, leads, arpeggios, and experimental MIDI workflows. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-bjango-...

Sample Logic’s HeartBeat Guitars is a new Kontakt loop library featuring over 3,200 guitar and bass loops plus 209 playable kits for cinematic, rock, metal, hip-hop, and trailer production. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-sample-...

Musical Sampling released Midnight: Alto Sax for Kontakt, a bold alto sax library for pop, jazz, and more, featuring expressive legato articulations, bend effects, and processed presets. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-musical...

UB DSP released Vowel Blender, a formant filter plugin for shaping vowel-like resonances with expressive real-time modulation and an intuitive workflow, available in major plugin formats with a full-featured trial. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-ub-dsp-...

FLASHBACK! Review: Kirchhoff EQ by Three Body Technology "...even in its simplest form, it’s one of the slickest, cleanest EQs out there."

A great feature set for a free plugin. I've always loved MultiFX plugins, especially for sound design.

Mercurial Tones’ Vanguard is a Mac and Windows bus compressor plugin with Vintage, Modern, and Bass modes, tube voicings, adaptive saturation, sidechain tools, and a 7-day free trial. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-mercuri...

SonicLAB launched CosmosFX8, a stochastic audio processor plugin for Mac and Windows featuring advanced delay, sampling, modulation, OSC control, and surround/ambisonic support for immersive sound design. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-sonicla...

Viiri Audio’s Aava is a creative convolution processor with real-time IR modulation, four-layer IR blending, tempo/key sync, and an X/Y Explore Map for morphing plugin states. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-viiri-a...

Driftlab Audio’s Tone Flow is a four-band EQ plugin with a macro tone control, real-time spectrum analyzer, meters, presets, and zero-latency, transparent tonal shaping. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-driftla...

The Crow Hill Company’s Absurdly Quiet Piano Pro is an intimate, ultra-soft piano plugin featuring delicate resonance, detailed mechanics, multiple mic positions, and painstakingly restored harmonics. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-the-cro...

Sound Magic’s Neo Erhu is a virtual Chinese bowed string instrument plugin using Music Domain Synthesis and Hybrid Modeling to expand erhu range, expression, and cover Erhu, Zhong Hu, and Jin Hu. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-sound-m...

Oeksound’s Soothe3 is a dynamic resonance suppressor that automatically reduces harsh frequencies in real time, delivering transparent smoothing for vocals and mixes with expanded control and multichannel support. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-oeksoun...

Growl Audio’s free gFractor is a spectrum analyzer plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux, featuring multiple analysis modes, sidechain comparison, phase/stereo visualization, and target curve referencing. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-growl-a...

Karoryfer Samples released Dubious Electrics, a Sforzando multi-instrument library featuring 10 unusual electric instruments, 6,135 samples, and added vibrato and feedback. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-karoryf...

Bjango released Robot Vowels, a formant filter plugin with analog-modeled distortion that morphs between real human vowel recordings to make sounds sing on macOS and Windows. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-bjango-...